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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Wim Wenders
Writers:
Wim Wenders (writer) and
Norman Ohler (co-writer) ...
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Release Date:
20 November 2008 (Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(12 articles)
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User Comments:
What a disaster! more (12 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Campino ... Finn
Inga Busch ... Karla
Axel Sichrovsky ... Hans
Gerhard Gutberlet ... Gerhard
Harry Blain ... Harry
Sebastian Blomberg ... Julian

Jana Pallaske ... Student
Olivia Asiedu-Poku ... Fan
Melika Foroutan ... Anke
Anna Orso ... Mother
Lou Reed ... Himself
Udo Samel ... Banker
Guiseppe Provinzano ... Actor 1
Guiseppe Massa ... Actor 2
Giovanna Mezzogiorno ... Flavia
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Palermo Story (Italy) (working title)
Rendez-vous à Palerme (France)
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Runtime:
France:124 min (Cannes Film Festival) | 108 min (re-cut version)
Country:
Germany | France | Italy
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Certification:
Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 (Qualidade)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The film marks the first time that Director Wenders shot a movie in his hometown, Düsseldorf. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: In the scene, when Finn talks with lady photographer, they discuss the age of their cameras. He tells that his Plaubel is twenty years old and she tells that her Leica is 40 years old. Actually she has Leica M7, which slightly differs from older Leica cameras. This camera marketed only in 2002. more
Movie Connections:
References Blowup (1966) more
Soundtrack:
Amuri more

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15 out of 37 people found the following comment useful.
What a disaster!, 14 November 2008
1/10
Author: oldnewbone from Germany

In every serious artist's life there're great oscillations and changes. Years of great and masterful work are followed by long passages of creative drought and emptiness. But every artist who takes himself seriously one day must understand and face facts that his best years are over and it would be wise to drop the pencil and leave the field for a new, emerging generation.

After seeing Wender's latest "work" at its premiere in Berlin last night I felt that everyone in the audience quietly shared the same thoughts about this flick:

That this can hardly be called a film anymore - but is a preposterous, embarrassing, empty and painful blow to anyone who liked some of the better of Wender's works in the past.

"Palermo Shooting" is a pseudo-surreal, pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-cinematic derangement, full of lame clichés, bad acting and dialog that only serves one cause:

It holds proof to the sheer yet painful fact that Wenders' time as a serious filmmaker has long come.

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